Women, Education and Empowerment

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India, with its phenomenally long historical traditions has presented several contrasting images of women, praised as a goddess, extolled as the mother of humanity and skyrocketed as the real creator of mankind. In actual practice, however, women are stigmatized as the weaker sex meant to bear all kinds of human oppression and male atrocities. In the post-independent India, especially since 1980s, the empowerment of women has been recognized as a central issue in determining the reality of their status, yet all the provisions of the Constitution and the spate of legislations enacted to empower women have not been adequate to set them free from their traditional bondages, liabilities and restrictions. How could a woman take her rightful place in the socio political system that does in the socio political system that does nothing to build her capacities, nor creates access to information? It is very important that women are empowered and that their capacities are enhanced through a process of imparting literacy and educating them, as it has been rightly believed that education and empowerment of women are genetically linked phenomenon and they can be delinked only at a great peril of vast humanity. This book is based on the selected papers presented in two days University Grants Commission sponsored National Seminar on “Role of Education in Empowering Women in India” held on 2nd and 3rd November 2004, organized by Department of History, at Ginni Devi Modi (PG) College, Modinagar, Ghaziabad (U.P). Based on the multidisciplinary approach, authors expressed their views on the concept and the process of women empowerment and identified the obstacles being faced in the way of empowering women and identified the obstacles being faced in the way of empowering women and identified as well the strategies that could be adopted for their empowerment in reality.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Aruna Sharma

Dr. Aruna Sharma, Reader and Head of the History Department has been teaching History at G.D.M. (PG) College, Modinagar, for more than twenty years. She has also been visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Dr. Aruna Sharma did her honours in history, post-graduation and Delhi. She is presently working on a project related to gender issues for the Research Award given to her by University Grants Commission. Since 1983, Aruna Sharma has been actively involved in her research activities. She has attended and presented number of research papers at various Seminars, Conferences and Workshops. She also organised a National Seminar on 'Role of Education in Empowering Women in India', in 2004 at Modinagar, and edited a book based on the selected papers presented in the Seminar.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rita Bakshi

Dr. Rita Bakshi is the Principal and Head, Department of History, Ginni Devi Modi Girls (PG) College, Modinagar (U.P) She has published many papers and participated in National Conferences.

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Title
Women, Education and Empowerment
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8186867945
Length
413p., Figures; Tables; References; Index; 22cm.
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